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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Teacher Tuesday: Quotes from the Classroom

When Shepherds
College was going through the accreditation process, our accreditation team
from the North Central Association – Commission on Accreditation and School
Improvement, gave us the highest possible rating in the area of Teaching and
Assessing for Learning. This achievement was pretty amazing and almost unheard
of for a new school – especially one that had to create its own curriculum!

It also tells you
something important about us – we take our teaching very seriously.

But, in spite of all
the seriousness regarding the quality of our teaching, those goofy moments
still manage to sneak into each classroom. Our students can be surprising! They
bring us lots of smiles, giggles and laughter. We’d like to share some of the
joy with you.

Our students on Disability:

Student: “I’m not
feeling well.”

Staff: “What are
your symptoms?”

Student: “My mom
calls it Down syndrome.”

(The student had
the flu…)

“My leg hurts. I
think I have ‘jet leg.’”

“The autism is flowing
through me.”

Student during
her demonstration speech conclusion: “Diabetes comes in handy in many ways.”

“I don’t have a real disability. I have a learning
disability.”

“Yeah, I have
OCD. That means I can be hot and cold at the same time.”

Our students on Food:

Student talking
about the fruit in his refrigerator: “My life’s motto is ‘Squeeze it as hard as
you can.’”

“Do you know what
caviar is? It’s fish poop.”

“So the pretzels
are glutton free?”

Our students on Education:

Student scoffing:
“This test is not going to be wahooo, it’s only whoop de doo.”

Teacher: “What’s
wahooo?”

Student: “Not
whoop de doo.”

Teacher: “What’s
whoop de doo?”

Student: “This
test.”

Teacher: “… can
we try to make it wahooo?”

Student: “I don’t
think so.”

“I was thinking
so hard that I started to sweat.”

Student on his
research project of Maine:

“The wabanalis
were the first people to welcome the dawn.

In different
countries throughout the nations, meaning that we really need to learn
different languages every day.

In North America,
Christfer Cloumuse descuvered that America had tuns and tuns of gold to make
things like watches, rings and even cars.

Many wepons were
made from gold, but now we know that history is incredible to Imagene.

The state flag is
also used in war.

The native
Americans still have tribes that are still trading with the Europeans to day
while we notice that we don’t have to take over all the states are being
invaded by the other nations that we declare.”